Newsmakers -- Published Dec. 10, 2012

Mimi Nguyen has been named executive director of the Miracle Mile Improvement District effective Jan. 2.

The Record

Mimi Nguyen has been named executive director of the Miracle Mile Improvement District effective Jan. 2.

A Bear Creek High graduate, Nguyen received a master of business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

From 2008 to 2011, she served as the director of economic development for the Stockton Downtown Alliance and was most recently the associate director of ARI Community Services in Sacramento.

Nguyen will replace the retiring director, Denise Jefferson, a University of the Pacific graduate who served as executive director since January 2011.

The Miracle Mile Improvement District includes all the commercial properties located near Pacific Avenue from Alpine to Harding Way and those commercial properties on Harding Way from Lincoln Street to El Dorado. There are 235 businesses in the district.

A reception will be held following the group's board of directors' meeting Wednesday to introduce Nguyen and say goodbye to Jefferson. The public is invited to stop in for refreshments at the Annex Room behind Green's Nutrition, 1906 Pacific Ave., from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Tim Pasisz has joined the Stockton Convention & Visitors Bureau as sports development director, responsible for marketing and promoting Stockton as an event destination, especially for youth and amateur sports.

Pasisz joined the bureau, effective Dec. 3, after six seasons with the Stockton Ports baseball team, where he managed their special-events and merchandise departments.

He attended Foothill Community College and the University of California, Davis.